Reps. Mike Thompson, Jared Huffmanand Jackie Speier are hosting an Offshore Oil Drilling Listening Session Tuesday, March 27th to get feedback from local stakeholders, experts and government representatives regarding the Trump Administration’s proposals to allow offshore oil drilling on our pristine California coastline. These proposed changes would open California’s waters to expanded offshore drilling ...
Soil Health Series: Understanding Growth Media & the Chemistry of SoilIn the second class in the soil series, join the very knowledgeable Stephen Andrews (UC Berkeley Professor, specializing in soils) for a hands-on class to discover how the chemical reactions of soil clean our air, clean our water, and make nutrients available to plants. You'll understand chemistry like never before!You've ...
Where: SausalitoCost: Donations encouraged
'JANE' & Why Study Apes?Jane Goodall may be the world's foremost expert on our genetic and behavioral kin, the chimpanzees. She is certainly a brave and thoughtful steward of planet Earth. In the 2017 documentary Jane, we see the young, untrained researcher challenge scientific consensus on the road to revolutionizing people's understanding of the natural ...
Where: St. HelenaCost: $8
Exposed: Dieselgate's Impact on the Auto IndustryVolkswagen’s brazen cheating on air pollution rules rocked an industry with a long history of skulduggery. One VW executive went to jail for his role in Dieselgate and the plot thickened recently with revelations that VW, BMW and Mercedes paid researchers who locked monkeys in a room watching cartoons and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Profusa is pioneering sensors that continually and wirelessly report health status to a mobile device from within our body. Profusa’s novel sensors are based on fluorescent, soft, biomaterials that integrate with tissues permanently for long-term biomonitoring. After a 2016 regulatory approval in Europe, the company is accelerating commercialization activities while ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: $9 adv/$10 door general; $4/$5 IEEE members
Roving on Mars: Revving up for Future Exploration of the Red PlanetOrbiters, followed by rovers sent to Mars, have yielded a dramatic increase in knowledge about Mars over the past decade. Today thanks to several years of data collected in situ and remotely we have a better understanding of its geology and habitability potential. Three SETI Institute planetary scientists who have ...
Where: Menlo ParkCost: Free
Heirs to our OceansJoin ACS-SF Bay Chapter for a fascinating presentation HEIRS TO OUR OCEANS. That’s who we are, along with your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and newly-spawned zygotes. Heirs to our oceans are the next generation and the future generations who will inherit this planet and all that comes with it…. after your ...
